On Home Field,
A Baseball Family
Builds Lineup of Jobs

DON GREGORIO DE NIZAO, Dominican Republic -- This weekend, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim slugger Vladimir Guerrero will depart his hacienda here, where shotgun-toting sentries guard a motor pool of luxury cars, to start shagging fly balls at spring training. To the Angels, he's the power-hitting heart of their lineup. To hundreds in this dusty town, "Vladdy" is their boss.

Improbably, the shy 29-year-old right fielder has helped put together a kind of economic-development program for his hometown of 12,000. Latin...